Re: Fantasy Kaleidoscope Episodes RAW & HD

I'm also interested in episodes 4 onward, fully raw and of good quality. It looks to me people are able to use the videos uploaded on YT by manpukujinja (with Japanese text) and manually remove the text to add English/translated subtitles themselves. How is this done? I just don't understand this process at all. Or did they actually obtain the raw files from somewhere? I just can't find them at all.

Re: Fantasy Kaleidoscope Episodes RAW & HD

Thanks for that! Small problem though, the quality isn't too great, there's a noticeable blur which would look worse in AMVs. Better than nothing, I guess... Hopefully we get them in HQ as well, would be amazing~

How did you find the 4th episode between now and the time you wrote your previous comment, btw? You mentioned not having the 4th episode. Through the torrent?

Re: Fantasy Kaleidoscope Episodes RAW & HD

Found 5 and 6 in pretty good quality with no text at all, probably the best we have so far until something better and more HD pops up. I don't know what you need in regards to the sound, but this should work for the video~

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Ah yeah that one's pretty bad quality, that's unfortunate. Well, hoping the remaining 3 pop up somewhere eventually. I have no idea how to search for them anymore since I don't speak other languages to use them as keywords. Or where to ask for them. Maybe we can get reddevils to leak them without subtitles, since he appears to have them all.

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My channel has links to episodes, I'll be uploading all my raws. Every but, 7... sadly...

There's a noticeable blur and pixelation on that one too, sadly. Thanks for the effort though~

As for reddevils, he has all the episodes in perfect quality and with no text but his own manually-added subtitles, so I'm hoping I (or anyone else) can reach out to him to direct us to the fully raw links eventually. He has some links posted as "sources" for the raw files which is apparently manpukujinja's official blog or whatever, but I have no idea how to navigate it and it appears they're up for sale. So...yeah, not sure how to get a hold of those.

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Well, so far I found torrents of episodes 1 ~ 5 and 8 in pretty much as pristine of a quality as can be, supposedly fully raw (still downloading 1 ~ 5) but 6 and 7 literally don't exist, lol. All I can do right now is ask the uploaders of the episodes with custom subtitles if they can provide the raw files. Other than that, wait for the 2 to randomly pop up in the following...years?

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- List of all known DVD/BD releases: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ … M4BdAdKo1c - note that there are missing titles on the list so the DVD/BD volume labels for those are pure speculation. Yes, I've included EVERYTHING I could find about disc releases, including PVs and "preview discs", considering that MJ's blog is a godawful disaster for anything that isn't a main feature release.

- Episodes 1 to 4 are available in BD, which supersedes the previous DVD releases (two BDs so far: one for episode 1/PCB arc and other for episodes 2-4/EoSD arc), albeit sorely lacking on the extras department, so no HD PVs for you (bummer, since those also double as creditless OP/EDs for those of us into "let's localize the production credits" stuff). I don't doubt they're going to release more BDs in the future for the rest, given their tendency for waiting to complete an arc to give it the BD treatment. Unsure about how they're going to do with that Cirno episode (7), since it's just one of the "routes" from Hisoutensoku.

- As you've already guessed: finding material for episodes 1-5 and 8 is not actually difficult: aside of a "rebuilt" DVDISO for the Episode 3 (I know that well since I was who reauthored the "phantasm3" ISO floating around the net because some fucker decided to strip the menu and instead uploaded a ~2GB VOB to Baidu, completely ruining the disc structure... at least he bothered keeping the chapters!), everything else can be found untouched. The big glaring gaps are episodes 6 and 7. ISOs must exist somewhere... tightly locked behind firewalled gardens where nobody can enter. In fact the whole Touhou (and doujin) filesharing scene went to shit after Japanese uploaders stopped uploading and the Chinese seized the scene with their "nobody is welcome, pay2piracy" locked forums. Yes, that shit pisses me off as much as the next leecher, but unless if you have a way to buy shit from Japan, there is nothing we can do but to cry a river

- We got DVDISOs for episodes 4 and 5 thanks to local member grgspunk, who put his money where his mouth is and actually went through all the effort for buying, ripping and uploading those DVDs. Sadly nobody has offered doing the same for episodes 6 and 7 (and as much as I would love to do it, I live in a commie shithole called "Soviet Venezuela", which is a non-starter there). The ISO for episode 8 surfaced from literally nowhere (most likely a link to Baidu that eventually found its way into torrents and the like) sometime around January, but that looks like it was a one-off. And episode 9 was just released on C92, so...

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They also have BD rips but apparently I'm only allowed to post 1 link ^^;

Episode 8's magnet isn't functional, the seeds and download speed are pretty low and they're MKV files (but I guess I can convert that). Thanks anyways I guess. I'll see what the outcome is after 6, 7 and 9 download.

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If you're looking for HD source material... well, you might keep waiting for those BDs to get made first, because they don't exist yet!

Officially only episodes 1 to 4 are available in HD since those have been the only ones released in BD so far. For everything else, "HD" most likely means a YouTube rip (dunno what source does MJ use when uploading their episodes), or an upscale (oh god no!) - if you're looking for raw-quality material, it means only DVD so far. Could you please confirm your sources?

The DVD rip for episode 10 surfaced very quickly... in the form of a VIDEO_TS folder Still, it's untouched so that's great.